The New Yorker(@NewYorker):Bad movies are monumental feats of incompetence, inspired in their badness, bad in ways you could never have dreamed a film could be bad, so feverishly and outlandishly bad that they have bodied forth a new aesthetic category: trash movies. These films are more a matter of sensibility than of thematic preoccupation or stylistic continuity; thus, it is difficult to pin down their hallmarks. To understand bad movies, it is crucial to understand their most distinguished representative, the ultimate trash auteur: the enigmatic Neil Breen. Read about the Ingmar Bergman of bad movies:

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Bad movies are monumental feats of incompetence, inspired in their badness, bad in ways you could never have dreamed a film could be bad, so feverishly and outlandishly bad that they have bodied forth a new aesthetic category: trash movies. These films are more a matter of sensibility than of thematic preoccupation or stylistic continuity; thus, it is difficult to pin down their hallmarks. To understand bad movies, it is crucial to understand their most distinguished representative, the ultimate trash auteur: the enigmatic Neil Breen. Read about the Ingmar Bergman of bad movies: